Archive | October, 2010

Homemade Vanilla Extract! Easy And Cheap!

/ October 27, 2010 / awesome, food, home / Permalink

I’ve shared some really kick-ass ideas in the past like making homemade Baileys and your own DQ Blizzard, but I like a few things about the following recipe and I think you will too. Namely: How easy it is The short time frame to make it How much of a great Christmas gift this would [...]

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Free Money For Your Child!

/ October 26, 2010 / charity, home, local, make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

Nope, I don’t have a child – but I sure have one hell of an awesome nephew! And as the best uncle ever, I (as well as his folks of course) want to make bloody sure that he’s well educated when he gets to the age where he starts university or college or whatever it [...]

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Did You Know? Multivitamins..

/ October 26, 2010 / health, save money / Permalink

I think it’s due to the fact that I don’t eat a lot of seafood and some other items that I thought it would be a good idea to start taking a daily vitamin. So I have taken them religiously over the last few months. But thenI just read about how Consumer Reports tested 21 [...]

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Save $100 Extra A Month – Some Great Ideas!

/ October 26, 2010 / save money / Permalink

Just finished reading an article on some interesting ways to save $100 a month (or more) by doing some general things that you may do anyhow! I found the list over at balancemylife.ca and I must say that it’s a pretty darn good list. The bolded ones are methods which I try to save and [...]

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Want More Free Time? Cut Down On Sleep!!

/ October 25, 2010 / health / Permalink

I’m a really bad one to be typing this as I absolutely love my sleep. If I don’t get enough rest I’m simply not as productive as I should be – end of story. Last night for example I went to sleep around 11:30pm and my alarm goes off at 6:45am. That’s 7.25 hrs of [...]

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My iPhone 4 – It Just Keeps Getting Better!

/ October 22, 2010 / awesome, Technology, travel / Permalink

I had to write a little post about my experience with the iPhone when I was away. I have to tell you, this thing is absolutely blowing my mind – and for travelling? It’s almost critical. Makes me wonder how I got along without it before! I wanted to spend a few minutes just highlighting [...]

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Post From Montreal – What A City!

/ October 15, 2010 / everyday life, local / Permalink

So I don’t have a big long winded post here today to share, but I wanted to write something while everyone else is sleeping in around here (road trip rookies!). It’s 11:30 Atlantic Time and 10:30 here. I’ve been up for an hour and a half – they haven’t budget yet.. hmm.. maybe I’m getting [...]

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I Have Closed My Line Of Credit

/ October 11, 2010 / photography, save money, travel / Permalink

RBC is retarded. Back when I paid off my credit card, I posted about how it was a 30 second phone call to get my credit card limit reduced to $2000 from the shocking limit of $16,000 it was before. Very ironically, I got a letter in the mail just yesterday advising me that they [...]

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GPS System – Why Bother? Get An iPhone!!

/ October 11, 2010 / save money, Technology, travel / Permalink

So tomorrow I’m off to Montreal for a few days, then to NYC. This is going to likely be my only lengthy vacation this year where we actually get to take off somewhere other than the Maritimes so both myself and Liz are really excited about it. I can tell you something that we’re not [...]

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Hard Drives… Stop Upgrading Now!

/ October 5, 2010 / home, local, save money, Technology / Permalink

I’ve got a question for all of you. What do you store on your massive 500 gig or 2 terabyte hard drives? While I realize no one is going to post an answer for fear that the MPAA or some TV copyright blog-lurker is going to come crashing down their door with sub-machine guns and [...]

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